Dr. A. G. Gaston to speak in Roanoke next Monday afternoon

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April 5, 1962
Dr. A. G. Gaston To Speak In
Roanoke Next Monday Afternoon
Dr. A. G. Gaston, highly successful1 Birmingham businessman,
is scheduled to speak in Roanoke
at 3 o'clock next Monday afternoon, April 8. The meeting will be
held at the Randolph County
Training School under sponsorship of the Voters Association,
and the general public is invited.
Dr. Gaston was born July 4, 18-
92, in Demopolis, Marengo County, Alabama, to Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Gaston. He graduated from Tug-
gle Institute, Birmingham. He
holds honorary doctorate degrees
from Tuskegee Institute, Daniel
Payne College, Paul Quinn College of Waco, Texas, Allen University of Columbia, S. C, and
Monrovia College and Industrial
Institute of Monrovia Liberia,
West Africa.
His business affiliations include:
president of Smith and Gaston
Funeral Directors, Booker T.
Washington Business College, New
Grace Hill Cemetery, and Finley
Park Gardens Apartments; founder of the Vulcan Realty & Investment Corporation, with assets totaling over $300,000; president of
A. G. Gaston Motels, Inc., a 32-
of Daniel Payne College; member
of Committee of 100, 18th Street
YMCA, and United Negro College
Fund; two terms as president of
Birmingham Negro Business League and the National Negro Business League.
Dr. Gaston is a layman of the
African Methodist Episcopal Church and was official delegate to
the General Conference held at
Oxford, England, 1951. He was
e'ccted secretary-treasurer of the
Board of Church Extension of the
African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1956.
His fraternal affiliations include: Supreme Vice-Chancellor,
| Knights of Pythias; Supreme Worthy Councellor, Court of Calan-
thes; 33rd Degree Mason; member of IBPOE of W; Worthy Pa-
unit $300,000 air-conditionel motel for Negroes, located in Birmingham; president of Citizens
(Walgreen agency) Drug Store;
and president of Citizens Federal
Savings and Loan Association.
Civic and religious affiliations
include: member of board of trustees of Tuskegee Institute and
Daniel Payne College; treasurer
tron of the Order of Eastern Star.
In the course of his useful life
he has received many awards —
the Distinguished Service Award
from Fred M. Vinson for service
rendered the war finance program
in 1945; award from President
Harry S. Truman for outstanding
work on the Anti-Inflation Committee of the National Negro Insurance Association in 1946; Distinguished Service Award from
School of Agriculture, Tuskegee
Institute, 1951; Certificate of Appreciation from U. S. Commission
on Civil Rights, 1960; Russwurn
Award from National Newspaper
Publishers Association, 1960; Carver Award for outstanding civic
leadership from Carver Savings
and Investment, Corp., Philadelphia, 1960; and many others.

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